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What’s New in WHM 58 & What to Look For

In the 58 update of WHM & cPanel several rather large changes have been made to improve upon user experience and to expand available features. As cPanel works to continually expand and improve their offerings, we like to do our best to keep everyone informed and updated. Here are some of the highlights and items to look out for as the 58 update moves to release tier.

What to prepare for?

When large WHM updates, similar to this one, are released, there are often certain items that may exclude a server from being eligible for the update. These are often referred to as ‘update blockers’ within the official documentation. The items here are changes related to these ‘update blockers’.

CentOS 5 & CloudLinux 5 are no longer supported by WHM on and after update 58

CentOS 5 itself, and therefore CloudLinux 5, are becoming end-of-life status on March 31 of 2017, due to this and software limitations that these OS’s cause, cPanel is removing support preemptively.

Servers’ processors must now support 64-bit processing

Any older servers with 32-bit (x86) processes will no longer be supported by cPanel/WHM.

These update blockers will require a migration in order to update to WHM 58: Feel free to contact our Heroic Support® if you are experiencing these blocks.

What is new?!

On this release cPanel has included a lot of highly-requested features and improvements. This provides for a lot of new opportunities, but with so many changes, it’s easy to lose track of all the great new features that were added. Here are the highlights:

Addon Domain to account conversion tool

With this new feature you are now able to easily convert an Addon domain into a full-fledged cPanel account.

Roundcube is now provided via RPM’s

This change shouldn’t affect too much, however users who choose to customize their RoundCube will have a different process for that now.

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About the Author: Dan Pock

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